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...Your helicopter is now going to cost as much as Air Force One.' JOHN MCCAIN, confronting President Barack Obama over the military's procurement process, pointing specifically to an order by the Bush Administration for a fleet of 28 new presidential helicopters...
...Yikes!" - when asked how he felt about delivering the Democratic response to George W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union, New York Times...
...Some were really racist, saying things like, 'Why don't you and your family get on a boat and go back to China.'" - Washington State Senator Ken Jacobsen, on the threatening emails Locke received after giving the 2003 Democratic response to President George W. Bush's State of the Union, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July...
...well. In the very next line, Obama began, "With the deficit we inherited" - but could go no further because of Democratic delight in pointing out that today's fiscal problems were delivered by a Republican President and Republican Congress. The same group was equally delighted when Obama said that Bush had used the budget surpluses of 2000 as "an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future...
...modern presidency is a vast electronic synthesizer, capable of exhilarating musical effects or rank cacophony. The President needs to be able to throw his voice in a variety of ways - now sober, now soaring, now educating, now soothing. George W. Bush's presidency was straitjacketed by his inability to command any style but clenched orotundity. The two great television-era communicators in the office were yin and yang: Bill Clinton was a master of the conversational, not so good at set-piece speeches; Ronald Reagan just the opposite. Barack Obama has now demonstrated an ability to synthesize those...